Sylvia

“Who would judge you? Who do you know who's done a good job? Name one parent that you think made it through without fucking their kid up in some specific way.”
― Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

“Now, as far as I was concerned, there are two ways of living, and because we're on a ball in space these were more or less exactly poles apart. The first, accept the world as it is. The world is concrete and considerable, with beauties and flaws both, and both immense, profound and perplexing, and if you can take it as it is and for what it is you'll all but guarantee an easier path, because it's a given that acceptance is one of the keys to any kind of contentment. The second, that acceptance is surrender, that there's a place for it, but that place is somewhere just before your last breath where you say "All right then, I have tried" and accept that you have lived and loved as best you could, have pushed against every wall, stood up after every disappointment, and until that last moment, you shouldn't accept anything, you should make things better.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“After a liquid lunch in Craven’s, he had found the margins of the roads badly drawn.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“commentators found the Fifty phenomenon irritating”
― Jodie Archer, The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel